[MD] It takes a wolf

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi, all.

So. I've always found it interesting that Phaedrus and/or the Z-narrator 
made the famous booboo about the etymology of "Phaedrus": the incorrect 
"wolf" versus the correct "bright, radiant."

I was recently prowling around Wikipedia doing research for "Human Days" 
(m'next book), and I came upon this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceus - 
which indicates that Apollo had a Wolf manifestation or epithet.

The arch-Apollonian Aristotle (especially as interpreted so badly, so 
inorganically, by the merciless Chairman) had his HQ at, of course, The 
Lyceum "(Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, "Lykeion") ... a gymnasium and public 
meeting place in Classical Athens named after the god of the grove that 
housed the Lyceum, Apollo Lyceus (Apollo as 'wolf-god'). Though best known 
for its connection with Aristotle and the peripatetic school he led there, 
the Lyceum was in existence long before Aristotle’s formal founding in 334 
or 335 BC and continued under several heads until the Roman general Sulla 
sacked Athens in 86 BC[1]. The remains of the Lyceum were discovered in 
modern Athens in 1996." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyceum_(Classical)

So to do proper battle with Aristotle, Phaedrus had to, all the way down to 
his epithet, also be a wolf?

Bob's a careful writer. I wouldn't put it past possibility that he (or some 
part of him) planted it.

Of course, "bright, radiant" is also another one of the manifestations of 
Apollo, and not a bad description of Aristotle's own mind. Plato always 
seems darker and more heaving to me. I found translating Aristotle a snap 
and Plato near-impossible. Has it been remarked that "Aristotle" is an 
epithet also? Aristo-teles: "the best goal, or end." "Platon" was named for 
his broad shoulders, having been athletic in his youth - "the plateau."

BTW, someone had some fun with an in-joke here: 
http://www.klwines.com/detail.asp?sku=1039510


MRB
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